July 4, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, during a joint news conference following a meeting. © Michael Klimentyev © Sputnik
Business Insider: Russia and China are on the brink of a military alliance that could overwhelm the US
* For decades, the US has been the world's main military superpower.
* But the US faces formidable new threats, and rising global conflict.
* In the wake of the Ukraine war, Russia and China have been growing closer.
For decades, the military might of the US was unchallenged.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US was the world's only military superpower, with its forces deployed all over the world to defend allies and deter aggression.
But as 2023 draws to a close, conflicts are flaring across the world, and Russia and China are growing increasingly aggressive in their shared ambition to topple the US as the world's biggest power.
Their authoritarian leaders, Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia, are seeking to exploit global instability to damage the US and its allies, say analysts, and are drawing closer to forming a military alliance that poses the biggest threat the US has faced in decades.
"It is clear that the two states see themselves as military partners, and that this partnership is growing deeper and more experienced, even if it is not a formal alliance in the Western sense," Jonathan Ward, CEO of the Atlas Group, told Business Insider.
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WNU Editor: For decades one of the top priorities in US foreign policy was to always do what was necessary to make sure that Russia and China do not form a political/economic/military alliance. It is the reason why Nixon went to China in 1973, and why subsequent US Presidents have worked hard to cultivate ties with both countries, even at times compromising on US interests and priorities to make sure that such a Russia - China alliance did not form.
Unfortunately for the West. Circumstances, short - sighted US/Western policies, and the current geopolitical environment has pushed both China and Russia to form just such an alliance.
To say that this could have all been avoided is an understatement. Especially on the Russian side where all the West had to do was accept Russia's terms on Ukraine .... a neutral/non-NATO country that would recognize and respect its Russian speaking minorities in the eastern part of the country.
Sighhh ....
A prediction. Future historians will look back at this time and will wonder how did the US and its Western allies screw-up such a good thing after the Soviet Union broke-up and the West stood supreme over everyone.
"Future historians will look back at this time and will wonder how did the US and its Western allies screw-up such a good thing after the Soviet Union broke-up and the West stood supreme over everyone."
ReplyDeleteThey became fully captured by the interests of finance, decoupling completely politically from the lived-reality of the people they pretend to lead. Rinse and repeat a few decades and it isn't too surprising at all. Finance functions best for finance when it is extremely short-term and purely speculative... physical matter and its constraints slow down the fee generation cycle.
The bigger question is how the Western elites will adapt to the changing game. With vast segments of the world depriving them of more and more fees, will they attempt to clear cut the opposition with a controlled burn of capital (a.k.a a war beyond the shores)? Or will they become so horrified at the prospect of their declining significance on the world stage (and that really is the only one that matters for the top 0.01%) that they turn hyper-isolationist and rebuild.
Anyone with two brain cells was saying 5+ years ago that this is exactly what would happen if Nuland's little donbass project was pushed.
ReplyDeleteSo what is the explanation for why every foreign policy decision in the last 30 years has been the CLEARLY and obviously wrong choice?
Here's a theory: The people who rule America are not really Americans, they don't consider themselves Americans, and, despite maintaining citizenship and "primary residence" here, they ultimately don't care what happens to the country when they're done using it. They can always bug out to their real homes abroad.
I've spent my entire life watching these administrations simultaneously execute the most nefarious and suicidal foreign policy imaginable. If a choice ultimately weakens America (and you can convince the fazmen of the world to somehow cheer for it) then it's chosen axiomatically.
Even if the faggots voting for Bernie won in 2016 we still would have gotten a dull photocopy of John McCain when it comes to foreign policy. The uniparty converges on foreign policy 99% of the time.
It's not accidental. The same 60 people don't just rotate through the white house cabinet and state dept for 50 years, failing again and again without ever learning any lessons from the previous disasters, by accident. It is malicious.
The stateless billionaire class hates the thought of any nation that's able to exert such an outsized influence across the globe. Let alone a global empire ruled by it's own commoners. They would prefer if all nations were "brought down to size" and made dependent on the stateless mafia, wheresoever they currently stake their claim.
If/when they're done breaking up Russia and China into a motley of weak dependent states, they're gonna finish with us. Any state that can feed itself, provide it's own energy, and has a culturally homogenous population is a threat to them. Because their "strength" is in being able to bring you to heel simply by turning off the tap on whatever commodity you can no longer domestically produce. At least, that was the plan. Now they're gonna try climate guilt lol.
Anyway, as a software engineer would put it: Our enemies are multiplying and allying as a feature of our foreign policy, not as a bug. Merry Christmas.
Nice xmas commentary you two.
ReplyDeleteWe have met the enemy…
WNU in a nutshell- it's all the West's fault. Russia isn't to blame.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for the West. Circumstances, short - sighted US/Western policies, and the current geopolitical environment has pushed both China and Russia to form just such an alliance
ReplyDeleteThis effort of Russia being our allies was bearing fruit, but ..........
One word explains this epic failure.
NEOCONS
WNU Editor's comments on Russia and China remind me of commentators in the 1930s warning that the West shouldn't "push" Mussolini towards Hitler by opposing Italy's attack on Ethiopia. Guess what? Mussolini joined Hitler anyway because he had his own agency and had his own reasons for joining Hitler and didn't just react to what Britain and France did. It's the same relationship with Russia and China today.
ReplyDeleteWNU Editor keeps pushing the Kremlin line that the war was really caused by Ukraine itself and the West. It had nothing to do with Russia's invasion in 2022. It has nothing to do with Russia's invasion of the Donbas in 2014. Or its invasion of Crimea that same year. Or Putin ordering Yanukovych to stop the Ukraine-EU trade agreement which lead to the Maidan. Or to the dioxin poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko in 2004 that lead to the Orange Revolution. Or that Putin rejects the entire idea of an Ukrainian people because he believes they are really just Russians with an accent.
Either WNU editor doesn't understand what a "pretext" is, or he just bothers to not understand. This is all about Putin believing that in order to establish Russia in the first rank of great powers again he needs to subordinate Ukraine's people and resources to his ends.
Chris